[UK-CONTEST] Scoring up ready for WRTC-2006!

[Mike Farmer (G3VAO)]

Hi

Nice explanation.

Is there any wieghting factor for power levels include we have some good
contesters who only ever run low power from ther home QTH who from, what I
understand, would never make the top 50 let alone 5.

Likewise how do stations which are "assisted" get compared with "unassisted"

Not a very level playing field is it (or is it!)

I think I know the answer as it appears to me that the majority of contest
organisers assume that everone who is a serious contester running the
maximum amount of power.

Mike
G3VAO

2000 EUHFC SO Low Power winner
2001 ARRL 10m SO Low Power world 7th
2002 ARRL 10m SO Low Power world 8th
2003 not a good year
2004 IARU SO Low Power world 4th
2004 ARRL DX SO(A) Low Power world 3rd

(easy to spot that I retired in early 2000 ain't it)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nigel G3TXF" <nigel at G3TXF.com>
To: "UK Contest Reflector" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 9:36 PM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Scoring up ready for WRTC-2006!


Hullo UK Contesters,

As a purely academic exercise (I'm not in the right league for even thinking
about trying to take part in WRTC-06!) I thought I'd try to work through the
seemingly tortuous calculations of the "scoring system" that intended UK
participants will need to go through, if they want to take part in
WRTC-2006.

We in the UK are in what WRTC-2006 have defined as "Europe-Region-One".

The UK (all call-areas) is wrapped up in this Europe-Region-One with EI,
CT/CU, EA/EA6, F/TK, I/IS/IT, 9H, S5, 9A, T9, YU, LZ, Z3, SV, TA1, T7, ZA
and 3A). In order to be selected as a "Team Leader", intended entrants need
to be one of the five highest scoring entries in their Region. In other
words in order to represent the UK your "score" will be need to be one of
the top five from contesters submitting entries from this group of
countries. The five Team Leaders then get to choose an operator partner to
make up the Team.

[Please see the WRTC-2006 web-site for the complete details. My objective
here is only to summarize the amount of effort needed to compute your
"score".]

The WRTC-2006 have provided a spreadsheet which is no more than a collection
of un-linked cells. You need to do all the computations yourself within the
spreadsheet.

The most time-consuming parts are (a) remembering what contests you have
entered, (b) finding the published results of the contests that you want to
use as the basis of your score and (c) working out what your ranking was
against other participants from this notional Europe-Region-One (within your
category). This last item can take a long time, as for some contests you
will need to compile a separate results table just using Europe-Region-One
countries!

It has taken me a good three hours to find the scores, work out my rankings
(within Europe-Region-One) and complete the WRTC-2006 spreadsheet. I have
done the computation for eight contests (the maximum that you are allowed to
claim).

Not that it will mean anything to anyone, but my score (based on eight
contests) is 2,313 points. This could improve slightly once the CQWW CW 2004
results are out next month (when I would hopefully replace a lower scoring
contest with a higher scoring one, within my group of eight contests).

If anyone is interested I'd be happy to forward them the spreadsheet that I
have used to compute my score. I have put "Comment" boxes against the
computation cells in order to remind myself of the data that I used to
calculate the score for each of the claimed contests.

Based on my own workings, it would appear that the greatest competition with
our Europe-Region-One group will come from S5, YU, LZ and (to a lesser
extent) F and CT. Good luck to anyone who wishes to take part. Let's hope
that there is indeed a UK Team at WRTC-2006.

73 - Nigel G3TXF

P.S : There appears to be a slight error on the WRTC-2006 Selection
Parameters table: a 0.60 weighting factor is shown under the HQ section of
IARU for CW, but not for Mixed or SSB.